I am using Mathematica to layout some mathematical formulas for publication. The guidelines specify that in case of nested parentheses the encompassing ones need to be bigger than the inner ones. So is there a way to make parentheses bigger easily? Below is an example of what I want. It is made by inserting an invisible column at the beginning of the grouping, but that creates a ugly gap in the formula.

Yeah that works, but is messy as you say. Wonder if it would be possible to automate this tough. I'm Accepting your answer for now as its enough for my current situation.
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joojaaJan 15 '13 at 20:54

Yes you could automate this because the nudging is adjustment boxes so when you have something you like you can use show expression to have a look at the underlying box structure. But to go to the work of automating I would want to be doing several of these formulas with the same structure/format otherwise I'd just cut and paste.
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Mike HoneychurchJan 15 '13 at 21:01

Yeah your right I can just make a number of different sizes and copy paste them.
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joojaaJan 15 '13 at 21:12

Oh, yes. It might work better if you put it in grid with two elements center align and SpanFromAbove. Still needs tweak tough but is less buggy than what im finding the tweak to be. I must investigate further. Still not perfect.
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joojaaJan 17 '13 at 11:56

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